• @mindbleach
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    114 days ago

    I think it is logarithmic, it’s just marked linearly.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 days ago

      Logarithmic cannot start at 0 and would have equal spacing between 500, 1000 and 2000.

      I am confused because the font seems to be Aptos, the current default in Micro$oft Office, but Excel does not allow any other type of scale on X-Y plots.

      • @mindbleach
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        013 days ago

        That’s not equal spacing - 1000-1500 is a bit longer than 1500-2000.

        The graph is almost certainly logarithmic. Only the markings are stupid.

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          13 days ago

          Every time a number doubles (or increases 10×, or 𝑒×, whatever), it moves a constant distance on a log scale because its base-whatever logarithm increases by a constant amount. Hence my expectation of equal distance from 500 to 1000 and 1000 to 2000. I am ignoring 1500 here because it does not form a geometric sequence with any two other numbers so it can’t easily be used for this check.